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So what happens when the device that records your medical status is also the device you use to update your social connections?
Lee Maguire graded snobberies, bawdiness, hypocrisy
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Jessica Alba, riding a police hover drone.
Among tech journalists, BlackBerry is considered to be “old-fashioned, lame, commoditized technology,” as Mike Butcher, the blogger and digital adviser in London puts it. But BBM is private, decentralized, blindingly fast, and—most important—ubiquitous. My colleague Robert Capps has called this phenomenon the Good Enough Revolution (issue 17.09), though I doubt he [continued...]
Bill Wasik, Wired magazine, December 2011, #Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You
Linklog- International Law: Cybercrime: 30 Jan 2012"Cyberspace must be regarded as an operating environment. Therefore, it is our current position that to deal with so called cybercrime, cyber-terrorism and cyber-war, existing legal structures should be used rather than cyber-specific legislation being introduced." Wins the award for most-cyber statement in parliament so far. Cyber. […]
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- Mega-man: The fast, fabulous, and fraudulent life of Kim Dotcom[…]
- International Law: Cybercrime: 30 Jan 2012
Yes We Spam!
Oh dear. Looks like the African advance fee scammers have hijacked Blue State Digital – Barak Obama’s campaign technology backend providers. Maybe that cyber-security review can’t come soon enough… Return-path: nobody@bluestatedigital.com Delivery-date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:27:33 +0000 Received: from web11.bluestatedigital.com ([70.42.50.177]) by [redacted] id 1LXePM-0000sS-I9; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:27:32 +0000 Received: by web11.bluestatedigital.com [...]
US Government declares war on zombies
I overheard someone bitching about SPEWS blocking Telewest the other day, about how SPEWS had gone too far (seriously, are people really using SPEWS?) treating innocent users as spammers blah blah blah. The BBC story has quote from the ISP, Telewest, about why they’ve apparently been so slack about stemming the tide of spam coming [...]
Nasty brutessh and snort
In late July I started to get a lot of emails via logcheckinforming me of failed single attempts to log into the (disabled) guest account. Probably using a blank password, which was traditionally the access method on Unix servers offering anonymous, and usually restricted, shell logins. Jul 26 02:31:40 foobar sshd[24171]: Failed password for guest from x.30.170.12 [...]
SPF redux
About a year ago I got excited by the prospects of the SPF anti-spam scheme. Of course this is before Microsoft negotiated to merge SPF with their own “Caller-ID” scheme and the dark cloud of IP licensing poisoned my support. Anyway, to repeat the main problem with SPF: SPF validated using envelope sender addresses. This was good because it meant that [...]
Until the end of time
Remember “GeT“? At the beginning of 2000 it was being touted as Tony Blair’s big idea for e-commerce. As he put it on the scheme’s (now defunct) website at get-time.org: I am delighted to announce today that UK industry has taken the lead in building a key component of the emerging global electronic marketplace: Greenwich Electronic Time – the global time [...]
X-Know-Archive
A Socratic correspondent writes: From today I’ll be forwarding most of my mail to my gmail.com account. Note that gmail doesn’t support TLS so your mail to me will be sent in the clear. And of course, all our correspondence will be stored in a database with access controlled by a US based company, who (regardless their commitments to “not being [...]
Everyone in China
So, today’s Media Guardian has an article about net use in China which includes a nice little quote by the CEO of an online marketing company about why companies should pay attention to China: Apart from the simple fact that if everyone in China went online at the same time, it would bring the whole net down I like [...]
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